Panorama Panthers Outdoor Ed

Seed is going on the ground!

With the impending weather this weekend, we decided to get all of the seed that we collected on to the various parts of the prairie.
Tuesday, Nov. 25 - Outdoor Ed

All classes went out separately during their regularly scheduled class times.They seeded specific areas of the prairie with specific seeds. Mainly, most of our seed will go to the area of the prairie that has been disturbed last spring during the repair of the geothermal tubes for the elementary. Jax Joined us and was not very good at spreading seed, but he did chew a bunch of sticks.

Birdhouse gourds! It takes a village to make something happen. I am hoping that all of my students can put one up next spring.

Over the summer, we were able to grow some birdhouse gourds at my neighbor’s land for a school project. Mrs. Dorhout helped pick and organize them. We just finished putting them up in a grainery loft. Hopefully in 4-5 months they will be bone dry and we can get them done. I couldn’t have done it without the help of a couple of my students and their dad.

Now, all we have to do is clean the exterior, drill holes, clean the interior, do a light sanding, decorate, preserve them with an exterior finish, teach the kids where to put them, make sure that they get them up, and routinely check them for activity! That’s it… Whew!

Here's a video of the quail release earlier today:

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It’s “Quail Egg Time” in Panorama MS Science - 110 eggs went in the incubator at 12:00 today.

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Butterfly W**d (Asclepias Tuberosa) - With the impending rain, I collected approximately 50 pods from the plants in the pocket prairie that we looked at by my mailbox. These 10-12 plants were grown from seeds that we received from Steve Roe in the early spring of 2024. We are going to let them finish drying in the classroom (all the seed looks mature) and then we will separate the seed from the fluff using a colander. We will then mist it, freeze it (called stratification) and then next spring we will plant it. This will be one of the three "Marquee" species for the upcoming year.

Mark Dorhout

What: 8th Grade Science Field Trip - Prairie Seed Gathering
When: Wednesday,, Oct. 2, 2024, from 8:15 - 11:40
Who: All 8th grade Students
Where: Delaney Farm, 1/2 mile West and 1.5 Miles N of the intersection of H44 and H169
Supervisors: Mr. Dorhout, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Carmichael
Bus Driver: Dan Wagner
When kids are dismissed from their location in the morning, they will:
1. Bring all of their stuff to their lockers
- Small sealable water bottle
- No phone
- Minimal stuff in pockets
- Warmer clothes
- long pants
- socks (bring extra socks)
- long sleeves
- sweatshirt
- hat
-plastic grocery bags
-comb
2. Everyone will use the restroom as there are none available at the prairie
3. We will then meet by the front door
4. Take attendance
5. Load the bus
6. We will leave at about 8:25AM
***Cell phones: Students were told that they should not bring them along. The school is not responsible for their phone.

We will pick seed from 9:00AM - 11:10AM
-Mike Delaney, and possibly a couple others will be helping to organize us. He will talk to us at the beginning.

We will be back by 11:40, and kids will go to 4th period if we get back early, otherwise, kids will eat at their regular lunch and then go to their regular 5th period class.
Two things that you should always be able to see with a short walk is the bus area (SE) and the Fire Tower (NW)

What an awesome start to the year!!! It was warm, but the kids were great!

All of the middle schoolers took a walk to the Dorhout neighborhood (about one block from school) to look at two Prairie plantings that are in his yard. One is one year-old, and has some plants in it that the eighth graders planted last year. He is seeing if it is feasible to grow the small “Prairie Pocket,”throughout the community in an attempt to have more varied habitat for insects, small mammals, and birds.

50 bird houses are heading home tonight with 7th graders. I am looking forward to seeing all the pictures of them installed at each of my student’s houses.